Truly shocking - Boy, 15, dies after stabbing this lunchtime at a school in Sheffield.

Barleyfields, Middle class and white has nothing to do with it. You say that drugs were unheard of. That doesn't mean to say that they weren't there and being used by the middle class . You just didn't hear.

My GD is 12 and has started going into town (London commuter belt in Herts) after school and at weekends with her friends. My fear is that all she has to do is be in the wrong place at the wrong time and she may become a victim of this senseless knife-crime.

On the same news programme was another item about a 14 year old girl stabbing a teacher who thankfully wasn’t killed.
What is this all about??
The government needs to protect our children asap, not only from stabbings but from becoming involved with knives.
I could weep for the families. 😞🌺

an expensive boarding school where they might be exposed to drugs and alcohol, but not gang warfare and stabbings
Unfortunately a pupil caused two other pupils life changing injuries with a hammer at Blundells School here in Devon.
It's every week now, everywhere.
It saddens me.

Really tragic yet again, but I can’t help wondering if this problem stems from lockdown. The children involved in these incidents are mostly of the same age so is it possible that some were left unsupervised at that time and they are now lacking discipline. Just a thought!

You seem to have some sympathy for the killer FGT. I couldn’t give a damn whether he’s ‘terrified, sobbing his eyes out’. And whether I have sympathy for his parents depends on how he acquired the knife and how much they knew.

I’m no longer shocked either, tanith. Scarcely a day passes without such a killing. I have no idea what the answer is but I question the culture and family lives of those involved and their educational record. I’m thankful that my child grew up, went to school and socialised in a white middle class market town. Gangs were unknown, and drugs weren’t in circulation. Nowadays it’s every parent’s nightmare unless, perhaps, they are very well off and their children attend an expensive boarding school where they might be exposed to drugs and alcohol, but not gang warfare and stabbings.

These children never learn, do they?
Two families heart broken and changed irrevocably . A community shaken at such a loss.
It seems there was trouble earlier in the week and I'm sure the school acted promptly and rightly.
This carrying knives has been going on for a long, long time. I have been retired over 20 years and can remember problems well before ~~I retired.

Like ripples in a lake, so many people will be sobbing tonight. Beyond awful isn’t it?

Tragic news but I’m no longer shocked as another child dies by a knife wielded by a child. The country doesn’t seem able to get a grip on teenage knife crime. I despair 😩

The truy shocking bit is that it is no longer truly shocking, it seems to be a daily event.

Also in the news from Wales a 14 year old girl is found guilty of attempted murder, two members of school staff last year.
Do all schools now need scanners at entrance points with security staff?

This is so awful and tragic. Much more needs to be done.

RIP

Someone needs to get to grips with knife crime in the UK.

If anyone from the Government, Education Department or Police come on the TV/radio with the normal meaningless sound bite lessons will be learnt I will flipping scream…